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Which relations do exist between the IMSLP (the contributors, respectively) and other public domain score projects, as for example CPDL (http://www.cpdl.org/) or WIMA (http://www.icking-music-archive.org/) which are also projects with thousands of free scores, the first a wiki as well. Couldn't they be made sister projects - as Piano Society is a sister project now? It would be clever rather to cooperate instead of scan hundreds of scores new which are already scanned there, so we could save much time. [[User:Pausanias|Pausanias]] 08:20, 17 September 2007 (EDT)

Actually, there has been an offer of collaboration from the IMSLP to CPDL a while ago, but there has been no response. Though generally I think collaborations in the future will involve recording sites more, because there is not a lot of point to collaborations between score sites, since IMSLP aims to have all public domain scores on it anyway...

P.S. IMSLP also has the no-external-scores policy, so that all scores associated with the IMSLP must be hosted on the IMSLP server. This is just in case anything changes with the external site

If you bear in mind that CPDL has a significantly smaller group of active contributors compared to IMSLP, especially when it comes to managing the Wiki organisation of the site, then you may begin to understand why nothing has happened of late It also doesn't help that Rafael Ornes has had so little time to administer the site before or after the recent crash.

It's a wise decision to include files at the IMSLP site, as periodically CPDL has problems when other sites drop off the air.

Regards, Philip